Technical Note: PreSquat – Workshop on Numerical Prediction of Ship Squat in Restricted Waters

Abstract

In September 2013, the PreSquat workshop on numerical prediction of dynamic squat of ships in shallow and restricted waters was held by the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW) and Germanischer Lloyd (GL) in Mülheim, Germany. The purpose of the workshop was to benchmark the capabilities of available numerical methods for squat prediction through comparison with experimental data for a large container carrier of Post-Panamax type. With the exception of one test case the comparison with model test results was blind, i.e. the test results were not provided prior to the workshop. This technical note describes the model tests and the numerical results submitted to the workshop.